After three intense months of work from more than a dozen contributors, #deltachat 2.48 releases are rolling. Maybe the most feature-packed releases ever?

- "zero metadata" messaging

- native Audio/Video calls on Android and iOS, as well as UbuntuTouch

- Group and Channel descriptions

- A […]

#deltachat is made to be a reliable and resilient messenger for private groups, friends and family.

If you want to use it for joining or creating "public groups", please do yourself a favor, and create a dedicated "public profile" by tapping "create profile" and then use it to join public […]

Who ever is in the vicinity of Hannover in lower sachsony this coming Friday, is invited to consider joining one of our long-term contributors for an afternoon session on "the new and old internet" in the Auditorium at https://liminale.digital/
Likely in german […]

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#deltachat is now evolving for 9 years. Among the currently active 15-20 contributors a majority joined 5+ years ago, with some joining in the very first year and a few only joining last year.

Patience and perseverance is underrated when it comes to producing something that challenges the […]

Happy birthday to the CCC 🎉 45 year birthday 🎉 We are happy and grateful to be part of the chaos crowd and especially thank all the volunteers and organizers who made and make everything possible over the decades, truly outstanding and a beacon of rare normality […]

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We're flattered! @digitalcourage, one of the oldest digital rights organizations in Germany, just recommended using #deltachat

They included a fantastic, well-structured article in German on how to get started, with lots of good background info for those who seek it […]

next #deltachat #ios version is coming with #liquidglass 🥛 thanks Amzd for the work. though frustrating being forced by #bigtech to do things that may not be loved and feel superfluous, it's wanted by many meanwhile.

there are still some things to tweak, we […]

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@adhisimon @[email protected] @[email protected] You can disable calls in the notification settings :) and while there is no way to enforce relaying, the ecosystem for it is in place - chatmail relays ship a TURN server for relaying calls, and there is a central fallback TURN server for […]

Congratulations and shot out to our long-term collaborators from the @n0iroh project for releasing Iroh V1!

A major ugprade of the probably best Peer-to-Peer Rust networking library today:

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1

In case you missed it: When running apps like […]

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116702145454686241

The world-wide #chatmail relay network is growing in various wonderful ways. #freebsd joined the world-wide federated secure communication party and BSD cafe offers a public relay at https://chatamil.bsd.cafe :) Thanks @stefano @feld and […]

Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat.

It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a […]

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@Razemix 1) yes 2) you can create a new profile with non-chatmail address and add chatmail relays later; if you really want, you can add non-chatmail addresses to existing profile via "dclogin:" QR code (https://webxdc.org/#dc09-dclogin) but this option is not exposed in the UI.

It's hard these days to find a unifying description, or know about all the people and communities involved in #deltachat #chatmail #webxdc developments. One shared sentiment probably is wanting to develop anti-authoritarian technologies and cultures around it, and being opposed to authoritarian […]

A note on "#deltachat is going proprietary with #chatmail relays":

1) It's all based on IETF standards, with configuration and custom integration code fully FOSS and documented at: https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with hundreds of permission-free deployments.

2) We know of several alternative […]

What do you think is unique about the #deltachat project in the realm of secure cross-platform messaging?

You tell us :)

here are the full release notes: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/releases/tag/v2.51.0 -- also a lot of bug fixes option cleanup, as we are continuing to make settings fail-safe and easy to understand for mass users, sometimes to the detriment of more nerdy configurations. However […]

2.51+ releases are rolling into stores: Video/Audio Calls and Channels are not experimental but part of the default feature set now 💫

Calls and channels are always end-to-end encrypted, and only you and your contacts know each other's identity and metadata […]

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Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat.

It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a […]

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